Here is a collection of song lyrics for all known Tom Lehrer songs, (accompanied when possible, with MIDI sound files).

Three Tom Lehrer albums, all recorded before a live audience, are available from Reprise records. All three are great albums, save in one respect. None of them include song lyrics as part of their liner notes, and so here we attempt to remedy, at least in part, that deplorable situation. This site presents lyrics and patter transcriptions for all 40 tracks included on these albums, and in addition, includes lyrics for several other stray Lehrer songs known to be at large.

There are at least three other known Tom Lehrer albums. The 1953 album, Songs by Tom Lehrer, contains studio recordings of all the songs from Tom Lehrer Revisited. The 1959 album More Songs by Tom Lehrer contains studio recordings of all the songs from An Evening (Wasted) With Tom Lehrer. Both of these albums are out of print, however, they are collectively available on the 1996 album Songs & More Songs by Tom Lehrer, currently available from Rhino Records. This album contains all of the tracks from the other two, along with 1960 orchestral recordings of four of the songs, and a 1996 recording of I Got it From Agnes.

For those who don't know, Tom Lehrer is a schoolteacher who enjoyed a career during the 1950's and 1960's as a satirical songwriter. If you've never heard him, he's very similar to Mark Russell, except that he's funny.

     Update 1/14/2006:  Added lyrics to Goodbye, Mama (I'm Off to Yokohama), and the correct Russian phrases and their meanings from Lobachevsky
     Update 10/22/2010:  Added lyrics to Stanislavsky
     Update 11/20/2010:  Added lyrics to That's What I Like About the South

TOM LEHRER REVISITED (1959 - Live, 32:00) 1. Introduction (3:27) 2. I Wanna Go Back to Dixie (2:56) 3. The Wild West is Where I Want to Be (2:31) 4. The Old Dope Peddler (1:42) 5. Fight Fiercely, Harvard (2:41) 6. Lobachevsky (4:19) 7. The Irish Ballad (5:13) 8. The Hunting Song (1:59) 9. My Home Town (2:58) 10. When You are Old and Grey (2:27) 11. The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz (2:21) 12. I Hold Your Hand in Mine (1:55) 13. Be Prepared (2:39) 14. L-Y (2:11) 15. Silent E (1:30)

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AN EVENING WASTED WITH TOM LEHRER (1959 - Live, 42:23) 1. Poisoning Pigeons in the Park (2:38) 2. Bright College Days (3:03) 3. A Christmas Carol (2:54) 4. The Elements (2:16) 5. Oedipus Rex (3:41) 6. In Old Mexico (6:26) 7. Clementine (4:40) 8. It Makes A Fellow Proud to be a Soldier (4:50) 9. She's My Girl (2:53) 10. The Masochism Tango (3:30) 11. We Will All Go Together When We Go (5:32)

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THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT WAS (1965 - Live, 31:42) 1. National Brotherhood Week (2:35) 2. MLF Lullaby (2:25) 3. George Murphy (2:08) 4. The Folk Song Army (2:12) 5. Smut (3:15) 6. Send the Marines (1:46) 7. Pollution (2:17) 8. So Long, Mom (2:23) 9. Whatever Became of Hubert? (2:13) 10. New Math (4:28) 11. Who's Next? (2:00) 12. Alma (5:27) 13. Wernher Von Braun (1:46) 14. The Vatican Rag (2:14)

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MISCELLANEOUS SONGS
Boston (1944)
I Got it From Agnes (1953)
Physical Revue (1964)
Silent E (1971)
L-Y (1972)
The Professor's Song (1974)
There's a Delta for Every Epsilon (1974)
The Derivative Song (1974)
That's Mathematics (1993)
Everybody Eat (?)
Thanksgiving (?)
Selling Out (?)
Hanukah in Santa Monica (?)

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NOTES

All three of the above albums are available from Reprise Records; 3300 Warner Boulevard; Burbank, California 91505-4694

Studio recordings of tracks 2-13 of Tom Lehrer Revisited can be found on the 1953 album Songs by Tom Lehrer, and the 1996 album Songs & More Songs by Tom Lehrer from Rhino Records.

Studio recordings of all tracks from An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer can be found on the 1959 album More Songs by Tom Lehrer, and the 1996 album Songs & More Songs by Tom Lehrer

Orchestral versions of Poisoning Pigeons in the Park, The Masochism Tango, The Hunting Song, and We Will All Go Together When We Go can be found on the 1996 album Songs & More Songs by Tom Lehrer.

A studio recording of I Got it From Agnes is available on the 1996 album Songs & More Songs by Tom Lehrer. The other miscellaneous songs were long unavailable, but a couple have finally been released in Rhino's album, The Remains of Tom Lehrer.

No pigeons were harmed in the creation of this website. Bulls, squirrels, cows, game wardens, and daughters of miner-49'ers are another story however.

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